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Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true.
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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
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We live the given life, and not the planned.
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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
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It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
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Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.
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A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things it means putting first things first.
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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.
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An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
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